School Of Social SciencesSkills in Counselling 2Western Sydney University Unit Code: 101433.1
Discipline: COUNSELLING
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 7
Credit Points: 10
Equivalent Units
53007 - Practicum Counselling: Professionals in Action
Prerequisite
101432 Skills in Counselling 1
About this Unit
This unit offers further practice in foundational counselling skills introduced in Skills in Counselling 1. Additionally, students are introduced to skills appropriate to the unfolding counselling relationship, such as confrontation, and immediacy. Continuing membership in the small here-and-now group environment initiated in 101432 is required. In particular, to build awareness and skills in immediacy (here and now intervention). Group work in this unit will be more challenging, inviting deeper levels of vulnerability, and openness to giving and receiving honest feedback within the group. Assessment tasks will require analysis of group process over five sessions, and of students' own counselling skills, over 8 counselling sessions conducted with a volunteer client. Lectures will also revisit each Enneagram type, emphasising the kinds of behaviour typical of extremes of each type, and the ways that each type may present in counselling.